User Information & Services

PSC provides an integrated array of high performance computing and communications products and related services to their users, including supercomputing-class hardware, software, mass storage facilities, consulting, visualization services, and training. Information on all of these resources is available on the PSC web pages or by contacting the PSC hotline.

Grant information
How to apply for, administer, and renew allocations for computing services.
Computing Resources
PSC operates several supercomputing-class machines.
Software
Popular software for many scientific disciplines are installed, including packages for computational chemistry, engineering, biomedical databases and sequence analysis, neural sciences and materials science.
Corporate Affiliates Program
The PSC Corporate Affiliates Program provides its industrial partners the expertise and resources to enhance and support their corporate technical computing capabilities and to exploit high performance computing technologies. With over twenty years experience in both operating an integrated high performance computing facility and in developing applications of this technology to solve critical research, engineering, and business problems, PSC can put this expertise as well as the high performance computing and communications facilities themselves to work for you. With the wide array of products and services offered, our programs are customized to meet the particular needs of our partners.

Consulting Services
Our experienced team of user consultants is your first line of support for help with technical problems.
Visualization Services
PSC visualization experts can transform your data into images, slides or animations and advise you on the use of graphics software.
Mass Storage and Archival Services
Virtually unlimited data storage is available on Golem, PSC's dedicated archival system.

Besides maintaining data produced at PSC, we can provide storage for externally generated data. Both daily operations and archival applications can be accommodated. Contact Corporate Relations for more information.

Education, Outreach and Training
PSC's Education, Outreach and Training program promotes the understanding of supercomputing and its application in today's leading-edge scientific research. Training, technical expertise and access to high-performance computing facilities are available to audiences as diverse as K-12 students and teachers, university-level scientists and corporate research communities.

The National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC) conducts workshops on biomedical computing topics.